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Querying…
Hi everyone! Hope you are all writing like it was going out of style. First things first--Past Cliches: Movers and Shakers: Individuals with the power and/or influence to effect change. First, they alluded to God, but in 19th century started being applied and compared...
Writing every day
Hi Everyone! Hope all of you are busy writing and perfecting your craft. Last cliches: Cut and Dried--commonplace, routine. Term dates from the early 18th century, some disagreement to origin. Most believe came from timber, which is customarily cut to standard sizes...
Editing and re-editing…
Hi Everyone! Hope you all had a good week of writing and fun. First things first: last cliche: Worth Its Weight in Gold means extremely valuable; singularly useful. Roman playwright Plautus liked this metaphor, which also appeared in early 14th century. Later, Henry...
Research in your Writing…
Hi everyone! Hope all of you are writing and writing and writing. Cliche from last post: That Does It =that accomplishes or completes it. Used to be that does the trick and it replaces does the trick. Don't have a first date used for this one. How much do you...
Write, Write, Write,…
Hi everyone! Well, it was a busy week for me. Not only does the writers wokshop online keep me busy, but my mystery-novel in progress does. After being critiqued by the on-line group, I've made many changes and all for the good, I hope. My last post was on 3/26 and...
Finding those cliches..
Well, I'm finding it's not so easy to write about writing every single day. I'm too busy writing on my novels and working on the critiques in the writer's workshop, not to mention regular every day living that happens. 3/23/10 Cliches: Did you find them? A Lot of...
More about critiquing..
Well, I'm back. Did you find the last cliche? A Lost Cause: an undertaking doomed to fail. Early uses: from 1860s--New York Hearld July 2, 1868 referred to South's civil war and in Essays in Criticism, 1865 description of Oxford Univ. as "the home of lost causes"....
Blogging
Today's Saturday and I'm still at this blog. Not sure who's looking at it, but sure appreciated all those who've commented on it and taken a peak. Hopefully, those that did will check in every now and again. I would hate to think that this is a lost cause of my...
Cliche or not to cliche…
Do you use cliches? I don't see how we could not since I have a book called The Facts on File of Dictionary of Cliches and in it is over 3,500 terms and expressions! Everyone points out the major cliches in our pieces, but I imagine from the book above, they miss a...
Critiquing
Well, I went to bed last night and realized I'd forgotten to write here! I'm sure that might happen now and again. I decided to join the on-line critique group I used to belong to a few years back. So I went to the website (I put a link up) and joined their novels...
